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Kristen Helmstetter

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Mint Bulletproof Coffee Inspired By Dave Asprey’s Super Human Book

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Complete with ancient-looking Italy behind.

I just finished listening to Dave Asprey’s latest book, Super Human, on Audible (get the kindle version here).

As usual, I’m impressed with his work.

I’ve met Dave in person, been interviewed on his podcast, and video-conferenced with him in the past. He’s a really nice guy. Humble and kind are the words that come to mind when I think of him. And when I read his books, especially the latest, I think of him as courageous (and of course, interesting).

Inspired by my weird? cravings for MCT oil and his new book, I wanted some Bulletproof Coffee.

Back up: You all know I’m learning Italian for a few reasons: 1) bad-ass speaking more than one language 2) I’m living in Italy, so Italian was the smart choice, and 3) longevity. Learning a foreign language is really good for your brain.

I decided to try MCT oil and see if it helped my learning the language. I hadn’t had MCT in a couple of years I’d estimate?

In the late spring, I ordered C8 MCT oil from Amazon in the UK, and I started whisking butter and MCT into my coffee for a traditional Bulletproof Coffee Recipe as Dave Asprey created.

For whatever reason, maybe it was traveling during the summer and I couldn’t bring my big glass bottle of C8 MCT oil, but I found myself going back to just shots of espresso.

Then, I set it aside to oil-pull for oral health.

Not using it for coffee, I started to make my through the bottle this fall by oil-pulling. But, I decided I wanted to add extra-virgin olive oil to it so I could reap those benefits with my oil-pulling as well.

Then, because I like mint, I added mint essential oil drops. It made for a great oil-pulling solution.

Fast-forward to last month.

Before reading Super Human, I found myself craving MCT oils and keto-style coffee. In my research, I found this powder (on Amazon in the UK) to mix into coffee that included collagen protein powder, grass-fed butter powder (how do they do that lol?), MCT oil powder, and whey protein powder, plus a few trace ingredients of other things.

I wanted it. I ordered it.

I started making coffee with it and found myself only craving this coffee a couple of times in the morning. I didn’t want my usual scrambled eggs or greek yogurt or anything else. I did enjoy swallowing raw egg yolks though and continued to do that on the side.

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My New Book: The Carnivore Diet Handbook

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The Carnivore Diet Handbook

I’m excited to announce that I wrote another new book, The Carnivore Diet Handbook.

This is the book I wish I had when I started my carnivore diet.

I wrote The Carnivore Diet Handbook because I’ve been loving my experiences on a carnivore diet so far, and I wanted to share everything I’d discovered to help you do it, too!

Tons of people are curious about this diet, and people have lots of questions. I took everything I learned about trying the carnivore diet and put it in an easy-to-read book. You’ll learn exactly how and why I started this diet.

I used to be a body-builder way back in the day!

I’ve been fascinated by health and fitness for over twenty years, beginning at age 19 when I was a competitive bodybuilder. I remember the days fondly when I would eat an entire rack of ribs (sometimes 2 racks), every day for a week, leading up to a competition.

Then things changed… I went vegan!

In my mid-twenties (no longer bodybuilding), I became a vegan, primarily for ethical reasons, but I dove deeply into the pro-vegan literature, and I believed veganism was the healthiest way to eat.

Then one day, I realized that my toddler daughter was not thriving (nor my husband or myself upon honest inspection). This was despite my serious commitment to providing her with what I believed was a nutritionally complete diet, and spending a small fortune in the highest quality supplements.

From vegan, to “reformed vegan,” to heart-eating carnivore…

The short version is that I’ve done a complete, 180-degree reversal from my plants-only diet days.

When I’m eating a carnivore diet, I eat zero plants. I’ve even recently (finally) given up coffee (a plant extract and insecticide). I’m on day 4 for that. (I love and hate that I’ve given up coffee.)

Beef
Beef patties

The Carnivore Diet Handbook will show you why I’m eating this way and how you can get the benefits, too. Things like finally losing the weight you’ve always wanted to, only this time it’s EASY and delicious. You can experience what it’s like to not be addicted to sugar or carbs. If you have acne, this diet is amazing for giving you gorgeous clear skin. If you have aches and pains in joints or muscles, they are dramatically reduced of go away all together.

It’s an amazing diet and you should try it today. I love it!

The book is filled with all things carnivore diet:

  • My carnivore diet story and I how I came to try it including my skeptic’s tale(!)
  • The results I’ve experienced since being on it twice
  • FAQs about the carnivore diet (like, do I need veggies??? what about fiber???)
  • Tips for transitioning to a carnivore diet
  • Holidays on a carnivore diet
  • Traveling on a carnivore diet
  • Meal plans
  • Shopping list
  • Cooking tips
  • Plenty of mouth-watering meaty recipes

If you’re wondering about how you could feel better, get more energy, lessen inflammation in your body, and lose weight, then a carnivore diet is for you!

Bacon

Buy The Carnivore Diet Handbook TODAY ! Your body (and taste-buds!) will thank you.

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Carnivore Around the World: Denmark (Digital Nomad)

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Beef in Denmark

I’m still eating a carnivore diet, but it’s crappier than when I was in the United States and ribeyes were easy to come by (i.e., always a store with them on sale).

As a result, I have not enjoyed my carnivore diet as much, but I’m enjoying amazing skin. It motivates me to keep going.

I also feel very well and that keeps me going.

I’m also in fear of what will happen to my waist, skin, strong immune health, digestion, headaches, etc if I start eating plants and/or carbs.

I found ground beef here, and it looks to be grass-fed. The price doesn’t hurt too much, in fact cheaper than grass-fed in the US. I’m not sure what that’s about or maybe I’m not actually eating grass-fed beef. 😳 Language barrier.

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I Stopped Eating Vegetables for Over 60 Days and Ate a Carnivore Diet!

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Ribeye steak for carnivore diet
Ribeye steak – she’s a beauty.

Did I really eat a carnivore diet for over 60 days? No vegetables? No plants?

It’s true. I ate a carnivore diet for 60 days. In fact, I still am.

Why would I stop eating plants?

I know what people are wondering. It is weird and dangerous eating a carnivore diet?

I went on a carnivore diet and stopped eating plants, because I saw others do it with interesting benefits, and I became curious. That’s the heart of it.

I am writing this post to share a journey of mine.

When I told my husband, he was skeptical, understandably, but we’ve been married a long time and he’s witnessed my diverse diets.

But, a carnivore diet?

I live by a principle …

When new information presents itself, I’m not afraid to make changes. No dogma here.

I didn’t tell my mom for the first couple weeks that I was going to eat a carnivore diet. I thought she’d just freak. (Spoiler Alert: Turns out, she was pretty supportive, again, knowing me well that I do things like this. She also, after seeing me on it, after a while, decided to try the carnivore diet for herself! My husband, too!)

Did I really stop eating plants?

Pretty comical maybe, but yes, I did stop eating plants. Let’s see what happens.

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Greg’s Favorite: Egg Salad Pizza (Gluten-free)

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Egg Salad Pizza – want some?

I wanted an egg salad sandwich, but I didn’t have any sourdough bread. I settled on a pizza crust and created an egg salad “pizza” – which I’m guessing isn’t truly pizza (no red sauce or cheese), but you get the point. Baked crust topped with egg salad looks like a pizza-type meal.

Greg LOVED it. (Me, too.)

I used my favorite gluten-free crust that I buy by the box. It’s not organic – boohoo – but it’s tasty as F.

Really tasty gluten-free pizza crust

I made egg salad with pasture-raised eggs (the only eggs I’ll eat because the hens are treated very well and they have a lovely diet), Straus greek yogurt (my mayo replacement), mustard, salt, pepper, and a dash of citrus (or apple cider vinegar). Oftentimes I add Dr. Cowan’s Garden Vegetable powders (my favorite kitchen hack), and ground turmeric powder, garlic powder, onion powder, etc. Oh, maybe fresh herbs if I have (or dried).

The TOTALLY best way to make hard-cooked eggs is in a pressure cooker. The shells beg to be taken off – so easy. I put them in a pressure cooker (sitting on a trivet) with a cup of water. Turn it on to high pressure for 4 minutes. When the beep goes off, transfer to ice bath and peel shortly after. It’s so so so much easier than using the stove.

Get the pizza crust cooked, slather on a bit of grass-fed butter, slop on some egg salad. Eat. Eat. Eat.

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Square Sourdough “Starter” Biscuits Recipe

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My biscuits may be square, but they’re easy. :)

Last year I tried to make my own organic sourdough bread at home. My efforts were less than stellar. Way less. I knew that it’d have a fairly steep learning curve, but it didn’t help matters that I tried to alter the recipes to suit my health-insane ways (like using einkorn flour, etc). I basically hung up my bread-making apron. For the time.

A year later, I decided to try makeing my own sourdough bread again (there is no “try”)…

because…

  1. I’m inspired to save the money by making my own (the wonderful bread I was buying was $7 a loaf and required driving almost 40 minutes). My new frugality-is-cool mindset didn’t sit well with that.
  2. I found a recipe that looked decidedly easy, if only I’d just follow the damn directions as they were.

I was game.

Long story short (I’ll share the long story later, in another post) – I’m still working on the bread. It hasn’t been easy, but we’re happily eating the mistakes, as I learn to adapt the recipe to my current environment (summer in Arizona <— hot).

When making sourdough bread, there is plenty of leftover sourdough “starter” to either use for baking something else or throwing it away.

I decided to bake with it.

Enter: Square Sourdough “Starter” Biscuits Recipe

Obviously, you need sourdough starter to make these, which I’m guessing most of you don’t have. So, I’d recommend “trying” the recipe with grass-fed whole-fat milk, Greek yogurt, sour cream, buttermilk etc. Maybe a mix of two, if you’re inclined. I’m pretty confident they’ll be tasty no matter which way you go as they’re pretty forgiving.

The great thing is there’s no need to roll them out. Why bother? I keep it simple when it comes to cooking.

Just Real-Food here.

Ingredients:

  • 12.5 ounces organic white flour
  • 3/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 13 to 14 ounces sourdough starter (or milk / yogurt / sour cream / buttermilk)
  • 4 ounces (1/2 cup) melted butter, ghee, or refined coconut oil
  • extra melted butter or oil for greasing the baking dish

Directions:

  1. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
  2. Get out an 8×8 baking dish and grease it with plenty of melted butter.
  3. In a medium to large bowl, stir together the flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Add the sourdough starter and melted butter (or oil). Stir together well, until incorporated, using your hands if necessary, but no need to over-mix.
  4. Transfer the dough to the greased baking dish and squish/spread it in to fit. As you do this, you might get some melted butter/oil creeping up the sides of the baking dish – encourage this – and brush it (using your hand is fine) across the top of the dough.
  5. Bake for 20 minutes. Enjoy with softened butter and raw honey drizzled on top.

PS My next experiment will be mixing Dr. Cowan’s famous vegetable powders to give the biscuits a veggie kick. Stay tuned.

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